{"id":1846,"date":"2013-02-13T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2013-02-10T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T03:33:24","slug":"wednesday-wisdom-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/2013\/02\/wednesday-wisdom-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wisdom: Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/309\/2013\/02\/blood-orange.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2012\" title=\"blood orange\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/309\/2013\/02\/blood-orange-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A\u00a0weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a theme related to Paganism and childbearing. An invitation to meditate or just to pause a moment and consider.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blood, menstruation, sacred cycles, power\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHonouring our menstrual cycle reminds us how sacred we are.\u201d -Jane Hardwicke Collings in\u00a0<em>Becoming A Woman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildbearing is a form of power, one of the greatest powers in the world, and menstruation is a sign of that power.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/reproductivejustice\/156312\/imagine_never_having_to_have_your_period_again_the_truth_about_menstruation\/?page=entire\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Valerie Tarico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are born into blood and with blood.\u201d -Chandra Alexandre, at The Conference on Earth-Based Spiritualities &amp; Gender<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>How does blood connect with birthing? How do you honor your bleeding?<\/em><br>\n<small><\/small><\/p>\n<div><small>Blood Orange photo by ilovememphis\u00a0http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ilovememphis\/8424011890\/\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1360478898417_1070\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1360478898417_1073\" title=\"Attribution\" src=\"https:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/spaceout.gif\" alt=\"Attribution\" border=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1360478898417_1069\" title=\"No Derivative Works\" src=\"https:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/spaceout.gif\" alt=\"No Derivative Works\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1360478898417_1065\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Some rights reserved<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditations on blood, menstruation, and childbirth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,308,294],"tags":[716,309,726,32,33],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birth","category-menstruation","category-wednesday-wisdom","tag-birth","tag-blood","tag-menstruation","tag-pagan","tag-paganism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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